I don't blame them, I am just deeply saddened ...

[Joezer BH]

More species per hectare than in all of North America!!! Protect the Yasuni national park?[^] perhaps some other time :sigh: Ecuador abandons rain forest protection to pay its China debts. I don't blame them, I am just deeply saddened ... Will our kids have a world at all to live in, and if so, what sort of world will it be, ? :confused: every unrecoverable resource of the world gets ruined at one pace of another in order to make someone temporarily rich. * That's even without counting the (presumably) natural disasters like the currently ongoing Yosemite Fire[^] :sigh:

-- If money is your hope for independence, you cannot reach it. Being loved gives you strength, while loving gives you courage.

[Mycroft Holmes]

There is absolutely nothing positive to be said for the position they are in. Client state to China So lousy a govt that they can't borrow from anyone else Having to rely on international largesse for their economy to survive So Ecuador is a basket case - and saying that will still not save that forest.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

[Marc Clifton]

He cancelled the project last week after global donors only put up $13 million in cash (and $167 million in pledges) out of the agreed-upon $3.6 billion It's not like us tax payers in the US don't have the money. After all, how many of these[^] have the tax payers funded? Marc

Unit Testing Succinctly

[Mike Hankey]

Or most recently these[^].

VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.1 ToDo Manager Extension The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. -Steven Wright

[Mark_Wallace]

And these[^] are obviously much more important than reality.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!